This amendment protects the right to "due process," which includes habeas corpus.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
100
This is the number of exceptions to the four-part test for a "reasonable" search under the Fourth Amendment which are enumerated (listed) in the amendment itself.
What is none/zero?
100
This is what happens at a trial after the defense questions his first witness.
What is cross examination by the plaintiff/prosecutor?
100
This is what happens when two or more people are sued and all sued parties are 100 percent responsible for any harm.
What is joint liability?
100
This is what happens after a bill is introduced by a congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives.
What is assigned to a committee?
200
This amendment protects the right to counsel, which Gideon v. Wainwright discussed.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
200
This exception to the Fourth Amendment approved by the courts allows police to search you if they feel they would be in danger.
What is "stop and frisk"?
200
This is what happens after the judge gives final instructions to the jury after closing statements.
What is deliberation/jury verdict?
200
This is when a person can only be guilty of a tort if he deliberately committed the act.
What is intentional liability?
200
This is what the Supreme Court declaring a law unconstitutional is called (also if they declare it constitutional).
What is judicial review?
300
This amendment protects the right to remain silent, which the case of Miranda v. Arizona revolved around.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
300
This is the level of evidence required for a warrant under the Fourth Amendment?
What is "probable cause"?
300
This is what may happen in the criminal trial process after conviction and sentencing?
What is appeal?
300
This is when more than one party is sued, but the parties have different levels of responsibility.
What is several liability?
300
This is what happens if the House and Senate pass legislation that is not identically worded, i.e., they pass different versions of the same bill.
What is a conference committee is established with members of both bodies (to find a compromise version)?
400
This amendment protects the right to a jury trial in a civil case.
What is the Seventh Amendment?
400
This is the federal agency that has often taken information from American people's telephones without a warrant or any of the four tests required under the Fourth Amendment.
What is the NSA (or FBI)?
400
This is what happens after the defense gives its closing argument.
What is plaintiff/prosecution closing argument?
400
This is when a party is automatically guilty of harm in a tort if anything goes wrong.
What is strict liability?
400
This is the idea that most laws should be handled under the Constitution by the state and local levels (buttressed by the 9th and 10th amendments).
What is federalism?
500
This amendment applies the Bill of Rights to the states and guarantees all "equal protection of the laws" and "due process of law."
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
500
These are all four of the tests required for a search to be "reasonable" under the Fourth Amendment.
What are (1) warrant from a judge, (2) signed under oath, (3) probable cause, and (4) particularity?
500
This is what a written appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is called.
What is writ of mandamus?
500
Daily Double!
This is when a person cannot be sued because a law has been adopted banning lawsuits on a particular topic.
500
This is what happens after the House and Senate both pass identically worded bills.